20th Century
Remembrance Day
The Armistice agreement that brought an end to World War One was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest...
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The German Occupation of Vichy France
On 14th June 1940, Paris fell to Germany. The Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud and his deputy, Henri-Phillipe Petain, disagreed over...
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The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
At the end of World War Two Germany had been partitioned into four sectors controlled by America, Britain, France and...
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Hitler and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm and defeat in World War One, the government of the new German Weimar Republic...
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The Battle for Gaza, 1917
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (forces of the British Empire in Egypt) led by Archibald Murray had twice failed to capture...
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Nicholas II the Last Russian Tsar
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born on 18th May 1868. He was the first child of Alexander, son of Tsar Alexander...
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on 5th December 1955 for refusing to...
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The Quest to Reach the South Pole
Antarctica had first been sighted in 1820 by a Russian team of explorers led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and...
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USSR Established
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the Soviet Union) was established on 30th December 1922 by the...
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